Nutrition Student Gains Management Experience and Flexible Income for Medical School Prep

Speaker 0: Hello, my name is Zamara. I'm coming from Miami, Florida. Of course, so my college major right now is going to be nutrition, doing a little bit of a switch, but Vector has been a really big help for that, because I'm interested in running business with nutrition. Right now, in my office, I'm an assistant manager, so I'm getting a lot of manager skills, as well as just skills in being able to sell. Something that I've really learned from this job is that no matter where you go, sales skills are so important because in every professional environment, you're going to be selling something yourself or a service. So before Vector, I was working a summer job. I did a lot of research in high school, so I got an opportunity in my high school to help out with our summer research institute. I was just kind of a research assistant, really just helping out with grading papers and worksheets, and I really got interested with vector. One of my friends was doing it, and she presented it to my mom, and I was really just looking for something that I can take on with me during college. I was, during the summers, just trying to get some money to buy whatever I needed for my move in. I didn't really want my parents to worry about that. So that's why I started in the summer, and then I knew I would probably do it a little bit long term, because I would have some time during the school year just to earn a little bit of money on the side. Absolutely. When I first started working here, trying to figure out who my first appointments would be, I was reaching out to some of my friends for their clearance numbers, and so many people told me, Amar, this is a scam, you shouldn't do this, I funded better than this, I got that response once too. And I would always just come to them with confusion, because everything I've heard, it's a pyramid scheme, multi level marketing. I wasn't really into finance business before then, so I didn't know what an MLM was, I wasn't 100% sure what the definition of a pyramid scheme was, so I really just asked them, I asked them what's the definition, and I compared that to my experience, what was going on, and it really just wasn't the same. So I just trust my gut, and I'm really glad that I did, because there have been so many opportunities that I've been taking, and it's going to be such a big help when I'm applying for jobs, medical school, other things like that. Okay, great question. So my favorite customer that I've worked with, she's opening a Haitian Hall of Fame, and I actually got to go down to her office, talk to her about it. She showed me some of the products that she's working on, some of the groups that she's trying to get into, all of these different things, and it was just really, really cool to see that somebody was doing something like that, and I would have never gotten to meet her if I wasn't doing this job, if I wasn't expanding my network and all of those things. And now, even recently, she just contacted me. She's holding up an event and wanted some of my input on it, And so it's really crazy. I've had other people contact me as well. I'm only 18 years old right now. And it's just really cool to see that these adults were really captivated by just the way that I presented myself. I don't look like or seem like an 18 year old to them, I seem like a colleague that they can go to and reach out to for some advice on something, for some help reaching into my network, all of these things. So very, very flexible. Right now, I actually have 17 credits for college, and I would not be able to have a job be earning money if I had a normal, say, McDonald's, Chick fil A, even a research position job, just because you don't really have that kind of flexibility. I make my own schedule every week. I take the time, I see what I have to do for the week, classes, studying, and then that's when I set the times that I want to actually work. I also really love Vector because you have the opportunity to kind of just have a stable income if you're doing the bare minimum, but if you're really doing well developing your skills, you get to a point where you get rewarded for all that hard work that you've put into. So I'm definitely a person that, I mean, if I were working, say, at Chick fil A, I would be putting my all, and I would be earning the same amount of money that somebody who's on their phone for half the shift would be. But with this job, I can put in a bunch of work and get a lot more money than someone who's not putting as much work. So I really like that kind of reward based system. I would say I personally started out just looking for something I can do on the side for college, earn a little bit of money, but I'm someone who's very, very experience driven, so I feel like I can kind of connect with anybody who really wants to get as much experience as possible in college with really anything. I mean, working at Vector, selling knives sounds really strange, as a nutrition major especially, but when I was in the interview, they talked a lot about the advancement opportunities. Like I said, I'm an assistant manager in my office right now. I'm actually going to be a branch manager this summer. I want to be a just like so many manager opportunities, just being able to connect with people, having an impact on people, And if you want to get that experience, an experience that sets you apart from other people in a stack of resumes, that's a big reason why I would recommend Vector. Because my resume is gonna look so, so different than even some of my roommates that are living with me and UF. And that's gonna put me so ahead for any jobs, any med schools that I really wanna go to. Absolutely.